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Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

NYAcK, August Alt has just been
learned here that about two weeks ago
white girl, only sixteen years OF age and
of excellent family, eloped with a young
negro about four years her senior. The
affair has been kept very quiet, notwitl.-
standing the fact that the father OF the
girl is man of some prominence in his
neighborhood
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26
TELEsaRAPEIC AND GENERAL.
As picked up among our
Exchanges

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The Secretary
of the Interior to-day re voked the order
of withdrawal Of indemnity lands for the
benefit Of the Atlantic and Pacifict Rail
road company, and in letter to the Com
missioner of the General Land Office di-
rected that they may be restored to set
tlement under the Presumption and
Homestead laws In the course ofa very
lengthy review of the case, Sec.etary La
mar says:
Criticism upon the alleged shortcom-
ings of the Government with respect to
this grant comes with an i'll grace from
this company. The people, whom the
Government represents, had some rights
under the grant as well as the company.
That act was not passed and that CON
tract made for the sole benefit of the com
pany Mutuality in benefit was expected
and Intended and mutual obligations
were entered into, and equity and good
conscience would require Of both parties a
faithful observance of these obligations.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

The editor OF the Leavenworth Times
thinks one OF the recently discovered
mummies in Syria would make good
substitute for the present Secretary of
War; and he might have added almost
any kind of u mummy would be deci-
ded improvement on his $50 pound ex-
cellency
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

son of John w. Turner, Sheriff OF Utah
County. He had started out with tw,
teams to get work and met Hopt, VIII,
had been in jail at Provo, county seat oi
Utah County, for drunkenness and horse
stealing. He engaged Hopt to help drive
a team. They camped together and
We're joined later by Jack Emerson. Tn,
deed was committed at 10 in the evening
with an axe. The next day Hopt and
Emerson started with the teams, trading
off the grain in the wagons for whiskey
and provisions, with the dead body in
the bottom under the sacks Of grain.
cation in railroad circles that promises &c
rival in magnitude the story of the depre.
dations on the Panhandle Road that
came to light a few months ago in Pitts
burg, was sprung in this city when a
morning newspaper made the announce
ment that the freight ears on the Penn
sylvanid Railroad have been plundered
systematically for long time in the Phil
adelphia yards and at points adjacent to
the city. This startling announcement
was made simultaneously with the arrest
OF four men and one woman, who is said
to be the wife OF one OF the euiprits. To-
dav two more men were taken into Gus
tody, and the whole party are now locked
up, with the prospect of thirty or forty
more similar arrests before many days.
The men are brakemen on the New York
Division OF the Pennsylvania road and
form part of several different freight
crews.
For some time past complaints had
come to the ears OF the railroad officers
that merchandise shipped from New York
had failed to reach its destination, or only
part of the original package has been
found when the cars were opened nj the
end of the route. The losses known to
the company will amount to many thou
sands of dollars. How long the robberies
have been going on, or how much has
been stolen, she railroad officials refuse
to say. Detectives have been quietly at
work on the case, with the result of the
discovery in numerous pawn-shops OF an
immense variety of goods, consisting Of
and in fact almost every conceivable ar
ticle OF merchandise that had been stolen
from the cars and had been pledged, and
in great many instances the proprietors
Of the shops where the articles had been
pawned said they distinctly remember
that their customers were railroad men,
Or the wives OF railroaders living in their
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26


/ TorEKA, KAs., August Attorney Gen
eral Bradford has received information
| from Argentine to the effect that the whis-
ky men OF that town have formed an or
ganization known as the Argentine Per-
sonal Liberty Association, the object OF
which is to resist the efforts to enforce
the prohibitory law in Argentine. Gen.
Bradford says;
"Those personal liberty fellows might
take lesson from the Leavenworth whis-
key men. When started in to close the
Leavenworth saloons they formed very
strong organization, Every saloon man
and every whisky synpathizer contrib
uted monthly to fund to resist prohlbi-
ton. They had several thousand dollars
in their treasury, but Notwithstanding
their unusual strength they were com
pelled 10 surrender. When / went to
Argentine last week il took me but a short
time to learn that a great majority OF the
people OF the city, in fact nearly all the
law-abiding and intelligent citizens, were
in favor Of rigid enforcement OF the law !;
hence, j am satisfied that the efforts of
the Personal Liberty Association will be
of no avail"
Mr. Bradford will 60 to Argentine next
week and proceed against the violators OF
the prohibitory law.
The Attorney General has received an
inquiry from firm in Cowley County as
towhether compound called Lemon
Rye" and sold quite generally over the
state, il intoxicating, and whether its
sale as beverage is violation OF the
law. Mr.. Bradford has tasted the stuff,
and finds il il another dodge for evading
the prohibitory law. He writes TO the
inquirer that Lemon Rye" is nothin 6
more than sweetened whiskey, and that
il is clearly an intoxicant.
Another firm has requested Mr.. Brad
ford's opinion as to ginger ale. Mr.. Brad
ford replied that ginger ale is not intox-
icating, hut of course he can not tell
what kind OF mixtures are being sold over
the State as ginger ale.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

In Yuma they are Compelled TO keep
their eggs in a refrigerator in order to
prevent them Matching out. Wonderful
country that Citizen.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

NJ. p. Grace is in London trying to
float his scheme for the financial conquest
Of Peru.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

OMAHA, August l7.-Charley Parker,
the cowboy who robbed Paynaster Bush
OF the United States Army of $1,000 at
Hay Springs in February last, was cap
tured to-day at Candy by the Sheriff Of
Logan County. He had 81 ,25o on his
person
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

Russia has protested against Prince
Ferdinanl's occupancy OF the Bulgarian
throne.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

A rich New York dry goods merchants
son, who was entirely bald, has had tho
hair from Newfoundland dog : leg trans
planted to his own head and it is growing
nicely.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

The Times New York special of Aug.
18th says; The Graphic OF yesterday
the following announcement
"The engagement is announced OF Miss
Nellie Gould, eldest daughter Of the New
York millionaire. to J. NJ. Traber, u
bright young railroad employe at Kings
Creek, W. Va. 1t is said that the nup-
tials will be solemnized early next year"
Mr.. Gould sent the following denial.
New YoRK, August IL, 1887.
Dear Sir: The enclosed canard crept
into yesterdays Graphic. This Traber is
undoubtedly a half-crazy crank who has
been writing letters for the past year or
two to my daughter, though total stran-
ger. should like to KIN ow how such a
report was set afloat. Yours truly,
JAY GOULD.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

PARIS, August l7.-Blaine passed
through here last night on his way TO
Germany. Heis going to visit the prin-
cipal German spas, Carlsbad, Homburg,
Schwalbach and Baden. His last four
days' visit in London was for the purpose
Of filling some social engagements made
before leaving Scotland.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

The bodies OF about six hundred Chi
nese are about to be disinterred at San
Francisco and shipped TO China by steam
er for final interment.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26

j. T.. Curren, to whom editorial refer
ence was had in yesterdays optic, and
who will be remembered in this city as q
printer on the Gazette, before he became
the newspaper Warwick OF southern New
Mexico, has given up his last newspaper
venture at indianapolis Colorado, and
has opened job printing Office at Trim
idad. Optic.
Brookville, Canada, is the proud pos
SCISSOR OF the champion fool. He recently
swallowed potato bug by mistake, and
then took dose Of paris green to kill the
insect. The Doctors stomach pump
swindled the coroner out of a job, and
that official is very hot under the collar
over it.
Jay Gould has turned 500, 900 more of
his bonds into cash This makes 81 ,700,-
600 within twenty days. This time the
sale il of Iron Mountain 5 per cents, and
they 90 TO European customers OF the
Wall street banking house of Kuhn, Loeb
Il Co.
The Times Atlanta (Ga.) special says;
Jake Pettijohn, who was sentenced to
death thirty years ago in Forsythe county,
this state, and escaped by fight, has just
been arrested in Indian Territory and
will be brought back for execution.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-08-26
Sierra County aapo'a'f,

THE OFFICIALPAP or SIERRA
COUNTY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15
Master Workman POwderIy on Liquor
Drinking.

In recent number of the Journal Of
United Labor Master Workman I, v Pow
derly, in speaking of the liquor traffic says;
Among the letters that came to me to-
day | find one which takes me to task for
my words on the temperance question,
spoken some ten or twelve days ago in Bos-
ton and Lynn. My friend makes the can
did admission in starting out that in the
main / am right, that even the rum-seller
will not deny the justice of my position.
Having said as much, he should have stop
ped Even then he told me nothing new
know that l am right know that in
refusing to even touch a drop of strong
drink was and am right. In refusing to
treat another to that which do not believe
to be good for myself to drink know am
right. In refusing to associate with men
who get drunk, know am right. In not
allowing a rum-seller TO gain admittance
into the order of the Knights of Labor,
know | am right. In advising our assem-
blies not to rent halls or meeting rooms
over drinking places, l know l am right. l
have done this from the day my voice was
first heard in the council halls of our order.
My position on the question of temperance
is right am determined to maintain it and
will not abate it one iot or little. If in
1he hleiih an ll6hVi "hy shouiu ol0ei
my course
Ten years ago was hissed because l ad
vised men to let strong drink alone. They
threatened to rotten egg me. / have con
tinued 10 advise men to be temperate, and
though l have had no experience that
would qualify me to render an opinion ON
the efficacy of a rotten egg as an ally of
the rum-drinker, yet l would prefer to
have my exterior decorated from summit
to base with the rankest kind of rotten
eggs rather than allow one drop of liquid
villainy to pass my lips, or have the end of
my nose illumined by the blossom that fol-
lows planting of the seeds of hatred, en-
Wy, malice and damnation, all of which are
represented in a solitary glass of GIN"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15

Iowa's prohibitory law is well enforced
in 80 out of so counties, and there are 50
empty iails in the state.
A Michigan woman, who probably had
much time to spare, has made a unique
dress. The material is common spool
thread, white, and the entire dress is hand
crotcheted work, beautifully Aowered and
strong, and 10000 yards of thread were
used in its construction. The sleeves are
crotcheted in the proper shape and are
fastened in by lock crotcheted stitch. 1t
is very beautiful, and Mrs Mccormick was
six months completing it,
There is a sinkhole on the line of the
Carthage and Adirondack railroad into
which, it is said, have been dumped ten
acres of timber and innumerable carloads
of stone, without effect, the hole being as
bad as when first discovered. 1t is l75 feet
long and between two chains of hills, where
a change of the road bed is impracticable
For some time past efforts have been made
to fill up the cavity. Last Wednesday it
appeared TO be perfectly safe, and three
cars loaded with gravel were pushed over
the hole and unloaded, when they sank
quickly in 1S feet of water, and one man
narrowly escaped going down also.
The Boston Journal has pleasant para
graph about Gen. s. N. Southard, former
ly of the 14th Vermont, who was among
the veterans who attended the recent reun-
ion at Fairhaven. On the day before the
reunion he and his family had celebrated the
anniversary Of his marriage. There is
little romance connected with the generals
family. He was at Gettysburg, and lost
one leg and part of his other foot there
Twelve years after the battle he received
notice from law firm in the south that a
deceased Confederate soldier, named Cecil
Montgomery, had left in trust the sum of
$4,000, payable in yearly instalments of
$1,000, TO the first male heir of Sidney NJ.
Southard (who had saved his life) when
such heir should reach the age of 10 years.
The year following Mr. Southard met at a
reception at President Buckham's in Bur
lington his niece, Miss Lydia A. Wright,
whom he subsequently married, They
now have two daughters and one son, and
the son is named Cecil Montgomery.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15
The Temperanee Te...RooLs.
From the Rural vermonter.l


Mrs. Hunt and her man Bemis were both
at Montpelier last fall, and the former was
the head and front of the woman lobby
that, by its Establishments and persistence,
caioled the legislature into passing the 'ori-
ginal" temperance instruction bill. Mime
sotas suffering is chiefly sentimental, but
Vermont's is chiefly moral and material
Injustice amounting to outrage has been
done the schools and teachers in the passage
of even the amended bill which the COVER
nor finally signed, and the state has been
involved in the expenditure of $4,000 for
temperance textbooks which apparently
are worth but little more than old paper /;
and the end is not yet.
The books adopted by Minnesota are Dr.
Smiths Primer of Physiology and Hygiene,
TO accompany and follow oral instruction (;
DR., Browns Guide TO Health FOR the inter
mediate and similar grades, and DR.. Hutch
inson's Physiology and Hygiene, revised
edition, for the higher departments. The
latter book, we are credibly informed, was
in use in the schools in 100 towns in Yer
mont before the passage of the late law
Minnesota seems to have managed this mat
ter better than Vermont. She has had the
hardihood TO resist the sirens that lured the
Vermont solons on 10 shoals and rocks.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15

At the age of 25 man should have at
tained his maximum height, varying nor
mally from five feet six inches to six feet.
His weight should slowly increase through
out the adult period, being at 30 little less
than the maximum, which should be reach
ed at 40. The weight is very variable be-
tween the normal limits but the average
among men of medium height % years old
may be placed at about $40 pounds. The
power of endurance should be greatest be-
tween 20 and 30 that is, man should be
better able to endure severe hardships be-
tween 90 and 30 than at any other time of
life, The system may perhaps bear the
burden of more protracted but less vigor-
GUS exertions during the period of maturi-
ty but intense heat or cold of short dura-
tion, and such work as lifting heavy
weights, taking short but rapid runs, and
indeed every exercise which taxes severely
but briefly the muscular and nervous sys-
TENS, are best borne at the adult age.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15
Samantha Rt Saratoga.

| turned and looked at that beloved man
and l see that he wuz drinkin' lavishly of
the noble water. see that he wuz a drink
in more than wuz for his good, his linea-
ment showed it, and sez |. for he wuz a
liftin' another tumblerful onto his lips, sez
l, Pause Josiah Allen, and don't imbibe
too much.n
"Why," he whispered "you can drink
all you are mind to for cents. l am
bound for once, Samantha Allen to get the
worth of my money"
And he drinked the tumblerful down at
one swoller almost, and turned to the wea-
ry boy for another. He looked bad and
eager, and sez l, "How many have you
drinked :"
Sez he, in eager animated whisper
Nine" And he whispered in the same
axents, Five times nine is As. If it had
been to a fair or Fourth of July or any
thing, it would have cost me 45 cents and
if it had been to a church social-lemme
see, nine times ten is ninety-it would have
cost me dollar bill and here l am havn'
it all for cents Why" sez he, 81 never
see the beat ont in my life"
And a'gin he drinked a tumblerful down,
and motioned to the frightened boy for an
other.
But took him by the vest and whispered
to him, SEE l, Josiah Allen, do you want
to die because you can die cheap Why"
says |, lit will kill you to drink so much"
''But think of the cheapness ont, Sa-
mantha-the chance l have of gettin' the
worth of my money !"
But l whispered back to him in anxus
axents and told him that guessed if fun
eral expenses wuz added to that five cents
it wouldn't come so cheap, and sez l. "You
won't live through many more glasses, and
you'll see you won't. Why" sez l, "you
are a drowndin' out your insides."
There is such thing as bein too grasp
in, Josiah Allen" Sez l, "The children of
Israel used to want to lay up more nanny
than they wanted or needed, and it spite
on their hands"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15

spare. In this cell Guerrero was confined
previous 10 execution, and through one
narrow, grated window, through walls at
least three feet thick he looked out upon
the spot where his captors subsequently
shot him.
Before taking leave Of the good old cura
and his ruins, we clambered over the vast
and broken brick dome, whence we viewed
the valley, counting twenty Indian mounds
in sight, and numerous modern villages.
In a long wing, all out of order and dropping
TO decay, with all the sacred images falling
to pieces, is a fine oil painting Of Santiago,
patron saint of Cortes, who appeared on
his famous pale horse at the battle Of Ia
basco-A. D. 1519-it is said-and fright
ened the helpless Indians even more than
the cavalry and cannon, which they that
day, for the first time saw.
Riding over by-paths through somewhat
sedgy cornfelds, we entered the little vii
lage of Qaachila, about noon, where we
breakfasted with the priest TO whom we
had letter. There is an immense adobe
mound here we fain would have dug into,
for many idols have been taken from it,
and a tomb was opened here containing
several tiers of metal platters, each with a
skull on it. But the authorities frowned
upon it, and we did not persist, for we were
told that the natives once set upon and
drove away the would-be desecrator of this
most ancient of burial places.
This town was once the site of Zapotec
city, where the king resided, and not far
from here is conical hill, called the Pap
of Maria Sanchez where not only was
great battle fought, between Miztics and
Iapotecs, in ancient times, but it was be
sieged by Alvarado, on his march TO Gaute
mala in 1922, for seven days, with desper-
ate fighting each day.
The vale of Ejutla is a peaceful region
now a delightful one to tarry in, with its
interesting Indians, descendants Of the very
ones who had crossed swords and pixies with
Alvarado's host, and with its sweet air
made balmy by drifting over fields of sugar
cane its soft landscape of cultivated fields
embossed with mangos and other trees of
darker green, with white stone houses on
the haciendas and huts of brown bamboo in
the Indian villages. On our return TO the
city we rode through miles of struggling
gardens planted with cochineal cactus
where patient Indians assiduously tended
the insects that brought wealth TO their an
cestors, but whose crimson blood was now
superseded by the cheaper aniline dye.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15

A six-year-old boy on the west side, whose
father is musician, was very restless the
other night and couldn't go TO sleep. Final
ly, as last resort he called out Papa,
please play your cornet that always makes
me tired. "-ChicdgO Journal.
At the graduation exercises of the New
England conservatory young lady opened
the program with Hugos ''Tormentum Bel
Ii" Seems as though green apples would
render that piece pretty well,-LOi0eH Cih-
zen.
This is the season of the year when the
country boarder eats salty ham and drinks
blinky milk, and has narrow escapes from
mad bulls and playful goats, and imagines
that he is recuperating his wasted energies.
-Cihcinndh Herald
Mamma Ito Walter, who has Just return
cd from his first experience with a fishing
rod)-"What back so soon 7" Walter
"Yes'm l thought I'd come home. The
worms were so nervous l couldn't get em
ON the hooks. "-Hdrper's BdzGr.
Mrs. Flaherty-"Phwat' this, Mrs. Nc
Quinn sss Ye're but jist married 10 a sic
ond husband and it's comm out in new
mournin' dress ye are /" Mrs. McGuinness
-"Oi alwiz mint 10 wear mournin for poor
Mike, but Oi niver had the money till now,
McGuinness is well fixed, praise the saints /"
lid Bits.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15
NO. %.
New Workers who Receive mig snIn-


Washington Post correspondence
There are score of men in New York
who are paid as much for their services
each year as the President of the United
States Forty thousand dollars a year is
very tidy salary. There are hundreds Of
men who get S2j, 900 year salary, and the
number who get from $4,000 to 500, 600
are legion. Very ordinary men get from
$4,000 to $4,000 year, or as much as a Cab
met officer DIR. Norvin Green president
of the Western Union Telegraph company,
is paid 5000 SO is Chauncey NJ. De
pew, president of the New York Central
railroad. Richard NJ McCurdy, President
of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
gets like amount. John Hoey, president
of Adams Express company, fares equally
well. President Henry b. HYDE of the
Equitable Life Insurance company, is also
on the list George G. Williams president
of the Chemical National bank, the richest
banking institution in America, with near
ly $4,000, 900 of surplus, 500, 600, 600 aver
age deposits, is paid salary of S25, 600
yearly. President Potts, of the Park bank,
and President Tappan, of the Gallatin Ma
tional bank, receive like sum each twelve
months.
The best paid minister in New York is
DR.. John Hall, a brainy man from the north
of Ireland, who breaches to 5000, 000 600
every Sunday. His is the smallest church
in town. He owes his rise in life to Rob
ert Bonner Of the Ledger, who found him
preaching to a small congregation in Dub
lin, and induced him to come to America.
He gets a salary of $4,000 year and
makes $4,000 by his newspaper and maya
zine articles He is given a luxuriously
furnished house as well. DR.. Morgan Dix,
the chief pastor of Trinity church corpor-
alton, the wealthiest in America, receives
S15,0 900 yearly. DR.. William L. Tay lor, Of
the Broadway tabernacle, gets the same
amount. He does literary work and lee
turing that brings his income up to $40, 900.
DR., Charles Hall of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church, is paid $1,000. He is
very eloquent and his church is crowded
at all services. DR.. Parkhurst of Madison
Square church, gets S12, 600. He has a
large and distinguished congregation. Cy-
rus w. Field is one of the pillars of the
church. DR.. Paxton, who breaches to Jay
Gould and others less wealthy, is paid $15,-
900. Collyer, the blacksmith preacher, is
paid $1,000